Posts Tagged ‘Marshall McLuhan’

27th July
2009
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

In the beginning was Marshall McLuhan, who would have celebrated his 98th birthday these days, but more about him later.  When I launched this blog almost two years ago, I decided not to accept comments: I observed how other blogs got inundated with horrific verbiage, often unrelated to the piece the comment was supposed to reflect on. Most relevant to me, however, was the fact that the majority of comments recycle the piece instead of adding something new to the concepts, ideas and thoughts used in the original. Why waste bandwidth with comment like “I agree fully” or “this is nonsense”?  We’re here to bury comments, not to praise them. (more…)

14th March
2008
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

If, like me, you are an avid reader of urban legends, you would have heard the story about the cocky guy at an upmarket restaurant who blabbers-on, talking endlessly on his mobile phone and showing off when,  suddenly, the phone rings! Fact is, a mobile phone is very much like an addition limb, an integral part of our bodies, going with us wherever we go.

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3rd December
2007
written by Rudy Nadler-Nir

The New Yorker is a powerfully engaging read. Before his untimely death in a car crash, the wonderfully versatile Rob Amato e-spoke to me about his plan (or was it still a dream?) of creating a local paper called The Johannesburger, what a mouth-watering prospect this would have been. (more…)